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Example sentences for "fiendlike"

Lexicographically close words:
fieldsmen; fieldworks; fiend; fiendish; fiendishly; fiendly; fiends; fient; fier; fiera
  1. Then became Decius suddenly frantic with a fiendlike spirit, and cried, "O thou, Hippolytus, whither drawest thou me bound with sharp chains?

  2. There are also some chosen men who drive out the accursed spirits from men possessed, by power of their prayers: whereto shall these be annexed except to the heavenly powers, who control the fiendlike tempters?

  3. He sent thee to these Cantons To deal forth law, stern law, for he is angered; But not to wanton with unbridled will In every cruelty, with fiendlike joy: There is a God to punish and avenge.

  4. Hilda, "then thou art indeed one of the loathsome brood whose magic is born, not of the aspiring soul, but the fiendlike heart.

  5. The other, Colonel McGee, with a little more respectability of character, was equally fiendlike in exciting the Indians to the most revolting barbarities.

  6. We have no space here to enter upon a description of the fiendlike cruelties practiced by these Spaniards.

  7. And it was also certain that the Indians, exasperated by the loss which they would have encountered, would put every prisoner to death, through all the horrors of fiendlike torture.

  8. While a portion of the Indians kept up the fire, others, with hideous yells sprang forward with tomahawk and scalping knife, completing their fiendlike work.

  9. One of the provocatives to this war was the assassination by fiendlike white men of the whole family of the renowned Indian chief, Logan, in the vicinity of the city of Wheeling.

  10. Even the fiendlike barbarism of the Spaniards could not provoke him to retaliatory cruelty.

  11. One day the fiendlike captain was amusing his crew with a recital of his past deeds of villany.

  12. Pizarro waited only for the sun to go down, that darkness might shroud the fiendlike deed.

  13. They had no means of crossing the water, and the exultant foe, in overwhelming numbers and with fiendlike yells, were pressing nearer and nearer, and overwhelming them with a storm of bullets.

  14. The perfect repose of the night had been instantly followed by fiendlike uproar and peril, and as instantly succeeded by perfect silence and solitude.

  15. They were in the midst of their charms for him, making such a fiendlike noise that it distempered us who were well, and therefore was unlike to ease him that was sick.

  16. Melmoth spoke very slowly and very softly, and the melodious smoothness of his voice made a frightful contrast to the stony rigor of his features, and the fiendlike brilliancy of his eyes.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fiendlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animal; atrocious; barbaric; barbarous; beastly; bestial; bloodthirsty; bloody; brutal; brute; cruel; demoniacal; devilish; diabolic; diabolical; fell; feral; ferocious; fiendish; fierce; ghoulish; hellish; infernal; inhuman; murderous; ruthless; sadistic; sanguinary; savage; truculent; unchristian; uncivilized; unhuman; vicious; wolfish